Australian progressive metal quintet VOYAGER will release its fifth studio album, "V", in North America on June 3 with distribution through Nightmare Records. The Kickstarter-funded, 13-track CD was recorded at Templeman Audio with producer Matt Templeman. The band calls the release "heavy, groovy and super-catchy. This is going to be pure, polished VOYAGER with a ...

Consequence Of Sound recently conducted an interview with a nameless ghoul from Swedish occult rockers GHOST. You can now watch the chat below. GHOST was honored in the "Best Hard Rock/Metal" category at the Swedish Grammis awards (Swedish Grammy equivalent), which was held on February 19 at Cirkus in Stockholm. The bands were all nominated ...

Superskum.com recently conducted an interview with vocalist Fernando Ribeiro of Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL. You can now watch the chat below. The "photobiography" book celebrating the 20th anniversary of MOONSPELL, titled "XX", was made available last year in both Portugese and English. MOONSPELL's latest album, "Alpha Noir", was released on April 27, 2012 via ...

Fan-filmed video footage of ROB ZOMBIE performing a cover version of the METALLICA classic "Enter Sandman" on April 29 at the House Of Blues in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina can be seen below. According to The Pulse Of Radio, Rob Zombie not only has a live DVD, a book and a spring tour on ...

After a rehearsal on April 17, drummer Kelly D. Smith of Arizoma metal veterans FLOTSAM AND JETSAM popped what appeared to be a blood blister. On Monday, April 21, he was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital And Medical Center emergency room in Phoenix for a severe MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) is a bacterium abscess on ...

Acclaimed drummer Bobby Jarzombek (FATES WARNING, SEBASTIAN BACH, HALFORD) has posted the following message earlier today (Wednesday, April 30) on his Facebook page: "Well, this kind of sucks....! Not to scare y'all, but I'm in the hospital and need to stay here overnight. My left knee started hurting a bit when I was in Europe ...

Greece's Metal Kaoz recently conducted an interview with vocalist Dani "Filth" Davey of British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. CRADLE OF FILTH has begun work on the follow-up to 2012's "The Manticore And Other Horrors", with the hope of a ...

On April 22, DOWN 'N' OUTZ released a brand new album "The Further Adventures Of…", which is the third instalment of the project fronted by DEF LEPPARD's lead singer Joe Elliott, and features tracks connected to MOTT THE HOOPLE. Audio samples of all the tracks that appear on the CD can be streamed in the ...

The second part of a video track-by-track breakdown of "A War Of Our Own", the new album fromDutch/Mexican symphonic/progressive metallers STREAM OF PASSION, can be seen below. Released on April 18 via PIAS/Rough Trade, the CD is described in a press release as "the result of the struggle the band had to endure after they ...

Austria's Mulatschag TV recently conducted an interview with guitarist Joe Hottinger and bassist Josh Smith of American hard rockers HALESTORM. You can now watch the chat below. As previously reported, HALESTORM debuted two new songs at two separate shows recently. The first tune, "Heartbreaker", was performed on March 28 at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville, ...